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1. "From among the Israelites have your brother Aaron, together with his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, brought to you, that they may be my priests.
2. For the glorious adornment of your brother Aaron you shall have sacred vestments made.
3. Therefore, to the various expert workmen whom I have endowed with skill, you shall give instructions to make such vestments for Aaron as will set him apart for his sacred service as my priest.
4. These are the vestments they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a brocaded tunic, a miter and a sash. In making these sacred vestments which your brother Aaron and his sons are to wear in serving as my priests,
5. they shall use gold, violet, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen.
6. "The ephod they shall make of gold thread and of violet, purple and scarlet yarn, embroidered on cloth of fine linen twined.
7. It shall have a pair of shoulder straps joined to its two upper ends.
8. The embroidered belt of the ephod shall extend out from it and, like it, be made of gold thread, of violet, purple and scarlet yarn, and of fine linen twined.
9. "Get two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel:
10. six of their names on one stone, and the other six on the other stone, in the order of their birth.
11. As a gem-cutter engraves a seal, so shall you have the two stones engraved with the names of the sons of Israel and then mounted in gold filigree work.
12. Set these two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod as memorial stones of the sons of Israel. Thus Aaron shall bear their names on his shoulders as a reminder before the LORD.
13. Make filigree rosettes of gold,
14. as well as two chains of pure gold, twisted like cords, and fasten the cordlike chains to the filigree rosettes.
15. "The breastpiece of decision you shall also have made, embroidered like the ephod with gold thread and violet, purple and scarlet yarn on cloth of fine linen twined.
16. It is to be square when folded double, a span high and a span wide.
17. On it you shall mount four rows of precious stones: in the first row, a carnelian, a topaz and an emerald;
18. in the second row, a garnet, a sapphire and a beryl;
19. in the third row, a jacinth, an agate and an amethyst;
20. in the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx and a jasper. These stones are to be mounted in gold filigree work,
21. twelve of them to match the names of the sons of Israel, each stone engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.
22. "When the chains of pure gold, twisted like cords, have been made for the breastpiece,
23. you shall then make two rings of gold for it and fasten them to the two upper ends of the breastpiece.
24. The gold cords are then to be fastened to the two rings at the upper ends of the breastpiece,
25. the other two ends of the cords being fastened in front to the two filigree rosettes which are attached to the shoulder straps of the ephod.
26. Make two other rings of gold and put them on the two lower ends of the breastpiece, on its edge that faces the ephod.
27. Then make two more rings of gold and fasten them to the bottom of the shoulder straps next to where they join the ephod in front, just above its embroidered belt.
28. Violet ribbons shall bind the rings of the breastpiece to the rings of the ephod, so that the breastpiece will stay right above the embroidered belt of the ephod and not swing loose from it.
29. "Whenever Aaron enters the sanctuary, he will thus bear the names of the sons of Israel on the breastpiece of decision over his heart as a constant reminder before the LORD.
30. In this breastpiece of decision you shall put the Urim and Thummim, that they may be over Aaron's heart whenever he enters the presence of the LORD. Thus he shall always bear the decisions for the Israelites over his heart in the LORD'S presence.
31. "The robe of the ephod you shall make entirely of violet material.
32. It shall have an opening for the head in the center, and around this opening there shall be a selvage, woven as at the opening of a shirt, to keep it from being torn.
33. All around the hem at the bottom you shall make pomegranates, woven of violet, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen twined, with gold bells between them;
34. first a gold bell, then a pomegranate, and thus alternating all around the hem of the robe.
35. Aaron shall wear it when ministering, that its tinkling may be heard as he enters and leaves the LORD'S presence in the sanctuary; else he will die.
36. "You shall also make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, as on a seal engraving, 'Sacred to the LORD.'
37. This plate is to be tied over the miter with a violet ribbon in such a way that it rests on the front of the miter,
38. over Aaron's forehead. Since Aaron bears whatever guilt the Israelites may incur in consecrating any of their sacred gifts, this plate must always be over his forehead, so that they may find favor with the LORD.
39. "The tunic of fine linen shall be brocaded. The miter shall be made of fine linen. The sash shall be of variegated work.
40. "Likewise, for the glorious adornment of Aaron's sons you shall have tunics and sashes and turbans made.
41. With these you shall clothe your brother Aaron and his sons. Anoint and ordain them, consecrating them as my priests.
42. You must also make linen drawers for them, to cover their naked flesh from their loins to their thighs.
43. Aaron and his sons shall wear them whenever they go into the meeting tent or approach the altar to minister in the sanctuary, lest they incur guilt and die. This shall be a perpetual ordinance for him and for his descendants.


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Press Release: People v. Buzzetta, David Harrison, 6/11/10
June 11, 2010
Bradford R. Fenocchio
District Attorney
10810 Justice Center Drive, Suite 240
Roseville, California 95678
For Immediate Release
Date: June 11, 2010
Art Campos
Public Information Officer
Scott Owens
Assistant District Attorney
The family of murder victim Paul Bonomo released three years of bottled-up emotions today in a Placer County courtroom during the sentencing of 22-year-old David Harrison Buzzetta, who was found guilty by a jury of bludgeoning his stepfather to death in the victim's Roseville home in 2007.
The brothers and sisters of Bonomo praised their deceased sibling for his kindness and humor and for his dedication to hard work and they urged Superior Court Judge Mark S Curry to give a maximum sentence to Buzzetta for the fatal beating he gave the 43-year-old Bonomo with a baseball bat.
Curry imposed the maximum sentence of 26 years to life in state prison for Buzzetta. A jury found Buzzetta guilty on January 12 of first-degree murder and deemed as true an allegation that he used a deadly weapon in the crime.
Tom Bonomo of Colorado read several impact statements on behalf of other brothers who were unable to attend the sentencing while his sister, Christine Bonomo, also of Colorado, read statements for several other sisters.
Tom Bonomo urged the justice system to keep Buzzetta locked up for the rest of his life.
"The defendant should not be allowed to remove the life of anyone else - ever," he said.
Tom Bonomo talked about his brother's love for fishing and outdoor sports, about his academic achievements at the University of Michigan, where he majored in electrical engineering, about his involvement as a scout leader and about his way of putting a "positive spin on everything."
"He was an outstanding person. The world needs more people like this," Tom Bonomo said.
Christine Bonomo also praised her brother and said that "no words can capture how much I loved him."
"No (prison) sentence will ever compensate for the loss," she said.
Paul Bonomo was found dead on March 19, 2007, the day after he'd allowed Buzzetta, then 19 and who had just returned from Colorado, to stay with him for the night because the stepson had nowhere to sleep.
A trial jury determined that Buzzetta, who had a history of drug use and who held resentment against his stepfather for his "tough love" methods, used an aluminum baseball bat to kill Bonomo, who was asleep in an upstairs bedroom.
The jury also determined that a special allegation that Buzzetta was lying in wait - an allegation that could send the defendant to prison for the rest of his life without possibility of parole - was true.
However, just as a second phase of the trial had begun in an effort to determine whether Buzzetta was sane when the crime was committed, an offer was made to strike the lying-in-wait allegation in exchange for the withdrawal of his insanity plea.
The action would allow Buzzetta a chance for parole.
Buzzetta's mother, Eileen Bonomo, also spoke in court today, telling her son how much she loved him and how she had tried to provide him with a good home. But she noted that he turned to drugs and bad friends in his teenage years.
"You made a very bad choice to take Paul's life," she told him. "For the first time, you are being held accountable."
Buzzetta kept his head down, staring at the counsel table in front of him throughout the entire proceeding and occasionally used a tissue to dab his nose and mouth. He spoke only once, saying "yes" when the judge asked him a question.


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Nov 07, 2017 | |
Future robots won't resemble humans - we're too inefficient |
(Nanowerk News) Humanoid robots are a vanity project: an attempt to create artificial life in our own image – essentially trying to play God. The problem is, we're not very good at it. Ask someone on the street to name a robot and you might hear "Terminator", "the Cybermen" or "that gold one from Star Wars". | |
What you're not going to be given are names like Tesla Model X, Cassini or DJI Inspire 2. These are all robots, but they don't follow the sci-fi narrative of what robots should be like. The fact is, the robots of the near future won't be going about on two legs like the shuffling C3PO. And they'll be much more efficient than us bipeds. | |
Our impression of what a robot is has been tainted by science fiction and popular culture. The term "robot" was first used in 1920 by Karel and Josef Capek in a play called R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) to describe an artificial automaton. Since then, our narcissistic desires have seen the word become synonymous with humanoid robots, or androids. | |
We like to think that we're the dominant creatures on the planet, so mobile robots should look like us. But the fact is, they shouldn't. We can't fly, we're not very good swimmers, we can't live in a vacuum and if we want to travel more than a mile, most of us will get on some type of wheeled vehicles. Bipedal locomotion has served us well but it is limited and requires a huge amount of brain power and years of learning to perfect. The computer versions of our brain are nowhere near our level and are unlikely to be so for decades to come. After nearly 100 years of development, our most advanced humanoid robots can only just open a door without falling over (too often). | |
A Compilation of Robots Falling Down at the DARPA Robotics Challenge. | |
Is a plane a robot? |
So what is the future of robotics? Well, it comes down to what you define a robot as. Unfortunately there isn't a unified definition of what a robot is, but the general consensus is that it's a physical device which can sense its surroundings and interact with the environment with limited human intervention. This could either be automation, where tasks are pre-programmed, or autonomy, where the robot makes decisions on its own. | |
Let's say that I build a little four-wheeled robot that can move from point A to point B without crashing into anything. I can give it a map and tell it where to go and it will do so without any further instructions. This sounds quite nifty, but what's the point of it? Well now let's scale it up so you can sit in it. Now suddenly it's not a robot, it's a driverless car. But all that's changed is the size. | |
I now want to fly off on my holidays. I quite happily get on the plane and see the two pilots in the cockpit. When I land, they're still there and I think what a great job they did. More than likely though, the pilots didn't actually fly the plane. They will have inputted commands to the autopilot and the computer will have flown the plane. The plane, for all intents and purposes, is a robot with human supervisors to take over if anything goes drastically wrong, just like a driverless car. | |
Planes, trains automobiles – and robots |
The future of nearly all transport is mobile robots. We're already there with robotic aircraft and within the next decade, we'll have robot cars. Robots already fly through space and scour the bottom of the ocean. It won't be too long before we have driverless trains and trams too. Drones will become a bigger part of society. All these things are robots, but they've had to be called something else due to societal impression of what a robot is. | |
A team of students from King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok has won the World RoboCup Rescue 2016 in Germany, making Thailand 8-time world champion of the competition. | |
What this highlights is that we adapt the technology to fit the environment. Rather than building robots that look like us so that they can be a direct replacement, you'll start to see things being built to suit a problem. Why do you need a robot with complex hands to pick up a pair of scissors or a hammer, when it can be built into their arms? Why build a robot to climb over debris in an earthquake on two legs, when four or six legs – or a wheeled track – would be much more stable? | |
There is no doubt that eventually androids will be walking around and talking with us. You'll pass them wandering down the street or hold a conversation with one as you do your shopping. But for now, the robots of the near future won't walk like us. Instead they'll drive, they'll fly, they'll swim or they'll walk on any number of legs – except two. |
Source: By Simon Watson, Lecturer in Robotic Systems, University of Manchester |


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So I am back to the drawing board again as I start collecting and sorting ideas on interior design - new projects and renovation ideas alike. I want to be able to plan ahead so if I change my mind, I will still have enough time left.
Renovated basements are indeed a source of great relief and comfort when you want to spend some peaceful time alone or with family or friends. There are many ways you can renovate your basement. You can try out these magical yet helpful ideas for decorating your lower ground floor.
1. Moisture Seals
The first and the foremost tip for the renovation of your basement is to find and figure out the possible presence of moisture or any dampness in your basement. There shouldn't be any sanitary leakages or any underground leaking pipes. You should apply authentic sealing agents on the walls of your basement. Replace old underground pipes and fittings if you have. Replace flooring. You have options like vinyl and laminate flooring. Make sure your basement is free of dampness in any regard.
2. Sump and Suction Pump
After you are done with the dampness control stuff, you should install or build a small sump in the vicinity of your basement. Also, powerful suction pump with a twenty-four-hour battery backup. This will help you evacuate any possible accidental penetration of water from upstairs as storms or floods may affect your area. After installing this facility, your basement is ready for internal decorations.
3. Choose a Nice Color Scheme
It is very important to choose a good color scheme for your basement, it is recommended not to choose dark color. Choose natural wooden colors for a decent outlook. You should go for a sealer paint coating for a better moisture control and more durability of your paint coats. The painter you are hiring should be professional or if you are doing the paint job yourself; be careful in painting as it is the basic element of basement decorations.
4. Furniture Selection
After you are done with the painting stuff, you should choose the right and suitable furniture for your basement. There should be some nice sofas, a studying table, some purpose-built cabinets, resting chairs and other items of your choice. The furniture should be bought in contrast with the wall and ceiling paints. It should be comfortable and relaxing.
5. Electrical Items
You should install a proper air conditioning system if you are living in a hot climatic region otherwise a nicer heating system. There should be a reliable ventilation duct that constantly supplies fresh air to your environment. You should be careful in choosing the lightening system of your basement. There should be combination of bright and dim lights. You can switch to dimmer lights for a peaceful relaxing time with some soothing music for yourself. Go for some table lamps for reading purposes.
6. Miscellaneous Decorative Items
The most eye-catching items of a basement may be defined as the paintings on the walls, ceiling hangings, vases and sofa cushions. You should wisely choose these items according to the color schemes of your furniture and paint. It is recommended that you should also install a good scented air freshener in your basement.
By following the above stated tips, you can turn your basement in a cool and interesting living place. I'm really looking forward to moving in to our new home and I will surely keep these tips in mind. After all, we can never have too many tips to use don't we?
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Streisand Feted By Clinton, Minnelli And Friends
She continued: "Maybe that's because I am. Three cheers for bossy women!" The crowd roared.
Of course, the crowd – which included the singer's friends, Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, was roaring at pretty much anything connected to her all evening, as the legend of song and screen was honored for her film career with the 40th annual Chaplin Award from the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
The Streisand fans especially loved the film highlights, which covered everything from "Funny Girl" and "The Way We Were" to "The Owl and the Pussycat," "What's Up, Doc?" and "Meet the Fockers."
And then there was "Yentl" – the first Hollywood movie to be directed, produced, written and starred in by a woman, as the crowd was reminded.
Streisand spoke of how hard it was to get funding to make the film. Producers, it seemed, weren't as passionate as she was about the tale of a Jewish girl in Eastern Europe who so longed to study the Talmud that she disguised herself as a boy. It was only when Streisand agreed to turn the movie into a musical – and most importantly, sing in it herself – that she was able to go ahead with the project.
"It's funny how things always come back to music," she said. "How it saves me."
Streisand, who turns 71 this week, is one of the few entertainers to have won Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony awards. Although she is perhaps most loved for her beautiful singing voice, she told the audience that as a young child, what she wanted most was to be an actress. But nobody really wanted "a 15-year-old Medea," she noted. "Thank God I was given a good voice," she said, explaining how her singing opened the doors to acting.
Not that acting was so easy in the early going. At age 16, she recalled, she had to show in a scene that she was in love with a man. But she was not attracted to the actor, she said, so she placed a piece of chocolate cake nearby – so she could stare at that longingly, instead.
For the awards gala, which raised $2 million for the film society – twice the previous high amount for the annual event – Streisand was serenaded by Wynton Marsalis on trumpet, by Liza Minnelli, and by Tony Bennett, who closed the show with the song, "Smile," fittingly a Charlie Chaplin song. Also appearing onstage to praise their friend and colleague were Michael Douglas, Catherine Deneuve (last year's honoree), Amy Irving, Blythe Danner, George Segal, Ben Stiller, Pierce Brosnan and Kris Kristofferson.
In video clips, Robert Redford – her "The Way We Were" co-star – spoke of how he'd been warned before making the movie that Streisand was "a pain," but discovered that she was "totally engaging to act with, beautiful, thorough and skilled." And Omar Sharif, who played Nick Arnstein in "Funny Girl," gave perhaps the most moving video tribute, talking about how incredible it was that he, an Egyptian actor, played a New York Jew in the 1968 film, and how she had become such a good friend. "We used to go to the cinema together," Sharif said. "We paid for our tickets and sat there and watched."
It was Bill Clinton, though, who got the last word – before Streisand, that is – praising the singer as driven, in the best way.
"Every great person is driven," the former president said. "But if that person has massive talent, big brains and a bigger heart, you want to go along for the ride."


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The Conservative-led Coalition government has suffered a major setback in its plan for an oppressive law to criminalise any behaviour that may be deemed a nuisance or annoyance.
The Antisocial Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill was intended to allow police the power to arrest any group in a public place who constables believe may upset someone. It was rejected by 306 votes to 178, after peers on all sides of the House condemned the proposal as one that would eliminate carol-singing and street preaching, bell-ringing and – of course – political protests.
It seems the Lords are more interested than our would-be tyrants in the Conservative and Liberal Democrat Cabinet in the basic assumption of British law – that a person is innocent until proven guilty.
The politics.co.uk website, reporting the government's defeat, said the new law would have introduced Injunctions to Prevent Nuisance and Annoyance (IPNAs) to replace Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs).
It explained: "Whereas an Asbo can only be granted if a person or group is causing or threatening to cause 'harassment, alarm or distress' to someone else, an Ipna could be approved merely if a judge believes the behaviour in question is 'capable of causing nuisance or annoyance to any person'.
"Opinion could have been swayed by a mistake from Lord Faulks, the Tory peer widely expected to shortly become a minister who was asked to give an example of the sort of behaviour which might be captured by the bill.
"He described a group of youths who repeatedly gathered at a specific location, smoking cannabis and playing loud music in a way representing 'a day-by-day harassment of individuals'.
"That triggered consternation in the chamber as peers challenged him over the word 'harassment' – a higher bar than the 'nuisance or annoyance' threshold he was arguing in favour of.
"'I find it difficult to accept a Conservative-led government is prepared to introduce this lower threshold in the bill,' Tory backbencher Patrick Cormack said.
"'We are sinking to a lower threshold and in the process many people may have their civil liberties taken away from them.'"
It is the judgement of the general public that this is precisely the intention.
Peers repeatedly quoted Lord Justice Sedley's ruling in a 1997 high court case, when he declared: "Freedom to only speak inoffensively is not worth having."
It is interesting to note that the government tried a well-used tactic – making a minor concession over the definition of 'annoyance' before the debate took place, in order to win the day. This has served the Coalition well in the past, particularly during the fight over the Health and Social Care Act, in which claims were made about GPs' role in commissioning services, about the future role of the Health Secretary, and about the promotion of private health organisations over NHS providers.
But today the Lords were not fooled and dismissed the change in agreement with the claim of civil liberties group Liberty, which said – in words that may also be applied to the claims about the Health Act – that they were "a little bit of window dressing" and "nothing substantial has changed".
A further concession, changing the proposal for an IPNA to be granted only if it is "just and convenient to do so" into one for it to be granted if it targets conduct which could be "reasonably expected to cause nuisance or annoyance" was torpedoed by Lord Dear, who rightly dismissed it as "vague and imprecise".
That is a criticism that has also been levelled at that other instrument of repression, the Transparency of Lobbying Bill. Lord Blair, the former Metropolitan police commissioner, invited comparison between the two when he described the Antisocial Behaviour Bill in the same terms previously applied to the Lobbying Bill: "This is a piece of absolutely awful legislation."
The defeat means the Bill will return to the House of Commons, where MPs will have to reconsider their approach to freedom of speech, under the scrutiny of a general public that is now much more aware of the threat to it than when the Bill was first passed by our allegedly democratic representatives.
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Analysis: USA Basketball's World Cup plan went awry long ago
DONGGUAN, China— USA Basketball's plan for a third consecutive World Cup title started going off the rails long before this tournament even began, after just about everyone who was originally asked to play for this team turned down the opportunity.
As such, this outcome was not exactly unexpected.
The Americans are not winning a medal at this World Cup, after they got outplayed by France in the quarterfinals on Wednesday night and got relegated to a playoff where the best remaining option is finishing fifth. France won 89-79, meriting much credit. Evan Fournier made tough shots and tougher passes. Rudy Gobert was outstanding. The French defense, with the game on the line, thwarted the U.S. repeatedly.
The better team won.
But the best team was at home.
Of the 35 players originally picked last year by USA Basketball for its roster pool this summer, four made it to China. The group that ultimately got assembled for this mission was a bunch of guys not even on the radar screens when this selection process began, a group that decided playing with and against really good players all summer — while getting coached by Gregg Popovich — was worth giving up nearly two months of an offseason.
They played hard. But there's no medal for playing hard.
"I know that people are going to focus on who we didn't have, but how about we focus on who we do have?" U.S. guard Donovan Mitchell said after his 29-point performance Wednesday night. "Our season ended, and we came out ready to work with Coach Pop and all his coaches. It's not about who's not here. I've been saying that for a while."
It bears noting that Mitchell was not on the original player-pool list. He chose to play and didn't mind being asked in the second wave. It's hard to imagine where the Americans would have been without him over the last few weeks.
Joe Harris was supposed to be a practice player for this team and wound up becoming a starter. Derrick White wasn't supposed to be here either, and there were nights in this tournament where he was the first sub off the U.S. bench — not because Popovich was playing favorites with his San Antonio point guard, but because it was merited.
Marcus Smart and Jaylen Brown had big-time moments for this team and they, too, were not anywhere near the original U.S. wish list.
A lot of other NBA players might not have cared about the World Cup. Fans might not have, either. And there's not much incentive for multimillionaires to give up their time off, travel thousands of miles to risk injury by playing in a tournament in which most of the games are not nationally televised in the United States.
Plus, plenty of players who have already won with USA Basketball often say they want to let someone else have a shot. That's not a new concept.
Losing just makes everyone look for easy solutions because, well, the thought is USA Basketball shouldn't lose — even when the other team has NBA players.
The good news in all this is the loss Wednesday probably won't get a whole lot of attention at home.
That's also the sad news.
Fact is, to most if not all players, an Olympic gold medal shines brighter than a FIBA gold medal. Same goes for an NBA title.
And those players who made the commitment to come to China realized this was pretty much a no-win proposition — win and you were supposed to, lose and it becomes a giant failure.
"Doesn't matter who is on the team, and I couldn't be more proud of these 12 guys who sacrificed their summer to come here, having never played with each other before," Popovich said. "They put themselves in the arena and competed, and they deserve credit for that, just like France deserves credit for winning. It's not about, 'Well, the United States didn't have their other guys.'
"There's no such thing as other guys. These are the guys that were here, and they did a great job, and I'm very proud of them."
Popovich will be there next summer, when the U.S. looks for a fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal in Tokyo. There's no way of knowing yet if any of the players from this World Cup team will be on the roster with him next summer. Mitchell and Kemba Walker will likely be strongly considered if they are healthy. Expect plenty of other big U.S. names to find the time that just didn't seem to be there this summer.
If the Olympic team loses, then it's really a debacle.
The World Cup team losing, in a game where they were using guards and forwards against a big-time NBA center like Gobert out of necessity, that seems like it was only really upsetting to … the World Cup team itself.
"We have 12 guys who are going to compete for America, just like every country," Mitchell said. "It sucks that some of our country people don't feel that way about us, but we don't care. We're going to compete."


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Attacks on the Press in 2011 - Italy
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22 February 2012
Key Developments
As Berlusconi is forced out, he still pushes bill banning wiretap coverage.
Journalists covering Meredith Kercher murder trial face official retaliation.
Silvio Berlusconi's government crumbled in November amid the country's economic crisis, ending a tenure marked by manipulation and restriction of the press. As prime minister and media owner, Berlusconi owned or controlled all of Italy's major national television channels, ensuring news coverage favorable to his administration. He worked methodically for three years to enact controversial legislation to prevent print and online media from publishing embarrassing information about alleged corruption in his government and his dalliances with young women. Even in the final days of his tenure, Berlusconi sought to revive a bill that would have limited the use of police wiretaps, penalized journalists for publishing the contents of wiretaps, and forced websites to publish "corrections" to information considered damaging to a person's image within 48 hours of receiving a complaint. Parliament had already postponed action on the measure, termed Berlusconi's "gag law," in 2010. In Perugia, prosecutor Giuliano Mignini used Italy's harsh defamation laws to intimidate journalists, authors, and media outlets – in Italy and the United States – that reported critically about his performance in two high-profile cases.
[Refworld note: The sections that follow represent a best effort to transcribe onto a single page information that appears in tabs on the CPJ's own pages, which also include a number of graphics not readily reproducible here. Refworld researchers are therefore strongly recommended to check against the original report: Attacks on the Press in 2011.]
Closed in protest: 1
In October 2011, Wikipedia disabled its Italian website to protest the revival in parliament of a controversial bill that would, in part, order online media to publish corrections – within 48 hours of a lodged complaint and without the right to appeal – if the online material was deemed damaging to the plaintiff's image.
Recent press freedom protests in the EU:
March 2008: Slovakia's six leading dailies published identical, front-page calls against a restrictive press bill.
October 2009: Tens of thousands of Italians rallied in Rome against Berlusconi's attempts to censor critical journalists and his excessive control over the media.
January 2011: Thousands of Hungarians protested in Budapest against the country's restrictive media law.
TV stations controlled by Berlusconi: 3
Through his media company, Mediaset, Berlusconi owned the commercial national television stations Canale 5, Italia 1, and Retequattro. Before resigning as prime minister, Berlusconi also controlled the public national television channels Rai 1, Rai 2, and Rai 3, part of the RAI broadcasting network. Mediaset and RAI together have dominated Italy's viewership and advertising market since the 1990s, which gave Berlusconi a virtual monopoly on the broadcast media landscape.
Most popular Italian media, according to the European Journalism Centre:
Print: National dailies Corriere della sera and La Repubblica were the leaders in circulation.
Television: Mediaset and RAI channels together attracted 90 percent of Italy's audience.
Radio: The divisions of RAI, Radio Uno, and Radio Due shared the top spots in terms of listenership.
Online: News websites with the highest number of visitors were the Italian version of MSN, Virgilio, Libero.
Defamation threats: 6
Perugia prosecutor Mignini has sued or threatened to sue several individuals and media outlets critical of his record. The threats, which have had a chilling effect on the press in Italy and the United States, stemmed from coverage of Mignini's performance in two high-profile murder investigations – the Monster of Florence case and the November 2007 slaying of British exchange student Meredith Kercher.
A prosecutor's defamation complaints:
February 2009: Mignini told the BBC he had filed a defamation claim against the U.S. weekly West Seattle Herald concerning an article critical of the prosecution in the Kercher case. Mignini was prosecuting a Seattle woman, Amanda Knox.
August 2009: After a critical comment by U.S. writer Joe Cottonwood was published in the Italian daily Il Giornale, Mignini threatened a criminal defamation lawsuit. Cottonwood said he was deterred from traveling to Italy after the threat.
September 2010: Gianfranco Sulas, an investigative reporter with the newsmagazine
Oggi, received notice that Mignini had started legal action over coverage of the prosecutor's record.
July and September 2010: Oggi Editor Umberto Brindani received two "notices of investigation" in relation to coverage of the Monster of Florence case.
February 2011: A Florentine judge ordered the closure of the English-language blog Perugia Shock, which published commentary critical of the Kercher investigation. The order stemmed from Mignini's lawsuit for "defamation, carried out by means of a website." The blog was shuttered.
March 2011: A Florentine court found veteran journalist Mario Spezi guilty of offending Mignini's "honor and prestige" in a public statement. Spezi was ordered to serve 15 days in prison or to pay 570 euros (US$826). Spezi opted to pay.
Blogger attacked: 1
Squadro Mobile – the local police unit in charge of the Kercher murder investigation – harassed, assaulted, and detained Frank Sfarzo in retaliation for critical reporting and commentary on his blog, Perugia Shock. The blog was later ordered removed.
Timeline in Sfarzo case:
November 2007: Sfarzo created Perugia Shock to report on the Kercher case.
October 28, 2008: Outside a Perugia court, Squadra Mobile officers struck Sfarzo and said his blog had angered them.
December 2008: Squadra Mobile continued to harass Sfarzo throughout the Kercher trial, preventing him from entering the court, seizing his cell phone and going through his contacts and text messages, and mouthing insults at him from across the courtroom.
September 28, 2010: Five Squadra Mobile officers forcibly entered Sfarzo's apartment without a warrant, striking and handcuffing the journalist. They brought him to a city hospital where they tried to have him declared mentally incompetent, then kept him in custody overnight without access to a lawyer or his family.
September 29, 2010: Squadra Mobile brought Sfarzo before a local judge, who indicted the journalist on several criminal charges, including "using violence and threats to resist public officials" and "injuring an officer."
May 10, 2011: Google took down Perugia Shock after a Florentine judge issued an order for its closure.
Internet penetration: 53.7%
Compared with other members of the European Union, Italians have been slower to embrace new media and the Internet, according to research by the International Telecommunication Union, or ITU.
Netherlands: 90.7 percent
Luxembourg: 90.6
Germany: 81.8
France: 80.1
Belgium: 79.3
Italy: 53.7
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Forget that fences make good neighbors.
Respect is the key.
Three months ago there were visitors in the neighborhood.
No problem. I'm not one of those people who have a heart attack if you park in front of my house. It's why they call it a public street. I also don't mind loud kids at play even though my sleeping hours are anything but normal.
What I won't tolerate are people who believe there is no problem with coming into my yard to take and do what they want.
The first encounter with this one particular family was noon on a Saturday. A mom and her young daughter were talking fairly loud on the sidewalk in front of my home. I wouldn't have given it a second thought but the voices kept getting louder and closer to the window.
I went outside and there was mom and daughter clipping my roses, ferns and golden poppies to make a bouquet.
I asked what they were doing.
"Just picking flowers," was the mom's reply. "They're so pretty."
I admit I was a bit stunned by her answer.
Then, before I could reply, she added that "it's a shame to see them go to waste."
I said they weren't going to waste and that I liked looking at them in my front yard.
"That's nice," she added.
The mother said they were just visiting and that they'd be through in a second.
I replied in a fairly civil tone that "you're through now."
She looked at me, gave me a "who-the-hell-do-you-think-you-are" look and left.
I had one more encounter with the family a few days later when I caught their pre-teen son trying to scale my backyard fence so he could play with my Dalmatians. In a less than civil conversation (I remember saying "what the hell do you think you're doing") the kid informed me he climbed fences to play with his neighbors' dogs all the time back home and that it was OK.
I told him it wasn't OK and as I was escorting him out of the yard I told him he could have been casing my house for all I knew. He didn't understand what I meant just as he didn't understand the concept of private property.
To be honest if the woman and her daughter had knocked on my door and asked to cut some roses and ferns I would have said "yes" although the poppies would be off limits.
When I lived on Pine Street we had 180 rose bushes split evenly between the front and backyards. More than a few people were helping themselves to roses without asking. One day a teen boy of about 16 knocked on my door and asked if he could pick some roses for his girlfriend. Because he asked, I not only got my clippers to help him so they'd be cut right but I also rustled up a vase to give him.
Not only did he ask but it also avoided someone who had no business cutting my roses doing it the wrong way and reducing repeat blooms.
The bottom line, though, is taking something without asking is stealing. And going onto private property without permission is called trespassing.
And it doesn't matter if you are taking something that you believe is inconsequential or crossing onto property that you think is no big deal.
Twenty years ago a friend's niece was visiting the Valley from Florida. She had brought her racing bicycle along and wanted to go for a ride to see the countryside. We went on an 80-mile loop through east Stanislaus and San Joaquin counties.
On the way back she stopped and set her bicycle against a tree on the edge of an orchard and proceeded to pick an apple.
I asked her what she was doing.
She said the obvious in that she was picking an apple.
I said she wasn't picking an apple – she was stealing.
She gave me a quizzical look. (Did I mention she was a deputy sheriff in Dade County?)
I asked her if she'd like people walking into her yard and helping themselves to flowers she was growing. She said no.
I said the apple trees just didn't happen to grow there. A farmer put in a lot of time, money and effort into them. They were his property and his livelihood. It is how he fed his family.
She said she never looked at it that way before and said someone stealing her flowers would make her mad. She then proceeded to polish off the apple.
If you don't want people taking stuff from you or freely roaming on your property then you shouldn't do the same thing to others.
The world does need more fences. It needs more respect.
This column is the opinion of Dennis Wyatt and does not necessarily represent the opinion of The Journal or Morris Newspaper Corp. of CA. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com or 209.249.3519.


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Lincoln's Lessons for Obama
Can President Obama take advantage of the egalitarian sentiment let loose in the country by the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations? The best response comes not from polls but from history.Can President Obama take advantage of the egalitarian sentiment let loose in the country by the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations? Would doing so be consistent with the moderate, conciliatory persona he has cultivated?
The best response comes not from polls but from history. Eric Foner's magnificent book on Abraham Lincoln's evolving views on the slavery question, "The Fiery Trial," offers some surprisingly relevant lessons.
The thing to remember is that on the slavery question, Lincoln was a moderate, not a radical. He promised in the 1860 election to leave slavery alone in the South, and even after the Civil War began, he tried again and again to conciliate Southerners, believing that Southern unionist sympathies would eventually prevail over slaveholder extremism.
As a result, he was accused by his allies of "too much tenderness toward traitors and rebels," and Lincoln worried to Republican leader Carl Schurz that his middle-of-the-road politics would offend both Democrats (the conservative party of the time) and Republicans (many of whom yearned for bolder action against slavery). Foner summarizes Lincoln's concerns: "He feared he was too radical for the Democrats and not radical enough for the Republicans and would end up without political support." Sound familiar?
Eventually, Lincoln grew weary of being caught in the middle and seeing his overtures to the South rejected. The government, he observed at one point, "cannot much longer play a game in which it stakes all, and its enemies stake nothing."
And so he finally issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863. Hostilities commenced on April 12, 1861, with the South's attack on Fort Sumter, so Lincoln took his time before embracing his role as the Great Emancipator. Obama, who even three months ago was seeking compromise with his congressional opponents, might understand.
Now comparing anything with Lincoln and the Civil War requires a paragraph full of caveats. So: No, we are not approaching civil war, and no, the issues we confront now aren't as morally momentous as slavery. And lest conservative readers get bent out of shape, I am not saying that Obama is Lincoln. FDR vies with Lincoln to be America's greatest president, and even he wasn't Lincoln.
But the political parallels are striking. Lincoln was always aware that getting too close to the abolitionists risked losing the political center of his time. Obama also cares about the center and has been wary of his party's left. Lincoln believed in reason and conciliation even with enemies who had taken up arms against the government he led. They wouldn't be conciliated — and Obama has had no better luck with less fearsome opponents.
In the meantime, as Foner points out, "abolitionists and Radicals" were pushing public opinion in the North to see that ending slavery was a necessary step toward winning the war and reuniting the nation. Their "agitation," Foner writes, "helped to establish the context within which politicians like Lincoln operated."
And so has the agitation of Occupy Wall Street begun to change the context of our discussion. Politicians and commentators who had been silent about economic inequality and the excesses of the financial sector are finally facing up to economic injustice and the irresponsibility of the financial elites. In the meantime, Obama's moderation has won him absolutely nothing. Having done much to save Wall Street and the banks, he receives in return only ingratitude and criticism. Bankers and financiers who needed the rest of America to bail them out now respond arrogantly when the rest of America complains about the unpaid promissory note it holds.
My old friend Doug Schoen wrote in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal about a poll of "nearly 200" Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York, concluding that they are committed to "radical left-wing policies." I'm sure there are some radicals in the crowd, since moderates aren't given to mass protests. But the dissatisfaction with the privileged that the demonstrators are expressing extends far beyond the left, and majorities share OWS' inclinations on many issues, including the need for the wealthy to pay more in taxes.
In their time, the abolitionists were radicals, too. Lincoln, a shrewd politician, understood that public opinion in the North did not fully embrace their cause but was moving in their direction. Lincoln remained at heart a moderate, but he abandoned moderation on slavery when this proved to be morally and politically unsuited to the imperatives of his moment. By following Lincoln's example and acting against the injustices of our time, Obama could also come to occupy the high ground.
E.J. Dionne's e-mail address is ejdionne(at)washpost.com.
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Why no ePub?
Just when a standard of sorts is being agreed amongst Book publishers, it's a huge shame that Amazon haven't incorporated ePub support in Kindle 2.0. Right now, Kindle is more of a closed system than SONY!
Let's hope the wireless module can be made compatible with European 3G networks.
Nice looking piece of kit though, very Apple, right down to the product shots.


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Panasonic: We'll save Earth by turning CO2 into booze
Scrub air of greenhouse gas, get plastered to celebrate
Electronics giant Panasonic is showing off its ambitious attempt to tackle global warming – with a plant-like machine that uses light to scrub CO2 from the atmosphere.
The Japanese biz's Artificial Photosynthesis System, which turns the greenhouse gas into organic material, differs from other attempts to mimic the behaviour of vegetation thanks to its ability to efficiently convert carbon dioxide.
Panasonic claimed that at efficiency levels of 0.2 per cent – that is, the energy proportion of synthesised materials to input light – the system is on a par with real plants.
Diginfo.tv has a handy video showing the boffinry in action.
The two-stage process begins by filling a nitride semiconductor photo-electrode with water and then exposing it to sunlight or artificial light. This light is absorbed and the water molecules react to free electrons, oxygen molecules and hydrogen ions.
The use of a nitride semiconductor is crucial as it is apparently able to excite the electrons to the high-energy state required to react with CO2.
The electrons then flow through wires to a metal catalyst. Here, they react with CO2 and hydrogen ions in a reduction reaction that produces mainly formic acid and other organic materials.
Panasonic chief researcher Satoshi Yotsuhashi told Diginfo that his team is able to conduct eight experiments at once, and is trying different materials and reactions with the aim of a more boozy outcome.
"When carbon dioxide reacts, the organic substances produced are of various kinds," he said.
"Currently, the main substance produced is formic acid, but in the future, we'd like to produce even more useful substances, such as hydrocarbons or alcohol."
The plan is to stick these machines in the vicinity of factories and power plants to absorb the waste carbon dioxide and turn it into ethanol. ®


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I really can't wait to see it again. Stay tuned for a review coming up from Liz!
In select theaters August 15th!
Acclaimed Irish director Lenny Abrahamson follows up his award-winning films Adam & Paul, Garage, and What Richard Did with an offbeat comedy about a young wannabe musician, Jon (Domhnall Gleeson), who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant-garde pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank (Michael Fassbender), a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head, and his terrifying bandmate Clara (Maggie Gyllenhaal).
Written by Jon Ronson (The Men Who Stare At Goats) and Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Men Who Stare At Goats), Frank is based on the memoir by Jon Ronson. It is a fictional story loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom, the persona of cult musician and comedy legend Chris Sievey, as well as other outsider musicians like Daniel Johnston and Captain Beefheart.
Official Site: http://www.magpictures.com/frank/
Official Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frankmovie


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By Christophe Blaess (firstname.lastname@example.com).
A few months ago, I decided to set up a local news server on my Linux Box, in order to read off-line the articles. Before then I read the news directly from the Usenet server of my Internet Provider, at the detriment of my phone bill...(Here, in France, even the local communications are rather expensive)
Before trying to install and set up one of the two classical news servers (Inn and CNews), I browsed a bit the Web, looking for a possible other product. I then discovered a very powerful small package "Leafnode" written by Arnt Gulbrandsen. It can be found in source form at ftp://ftp.troll.no/freebies/leafnode/ and the home page of this project is accessible at http://www.troll.no/freebies/leafnode.html.
This package (leafnode-0.9.tar.gz, 29 Kb) contains three little programs, very easy to install, and to use:
The main advantage of this system, is the transparent way it is inserted between the remote news server and the local newsreader. The remote Usenet server sees Leafnode exactly like a classical newsreader (like tin, trn, netscape,...) and the local news reader sees Leafnode just like a USENET server.
I have been happily using Leafnode for several months, and I would like to describe here the (very simple) steps to install and configure it. Then I will explain some hints to use it in a multi-users environment.
I've been using leafnode 0.8 for a few months, but I've recently upgraded to version 0.9. The process for installing it is the same as the previous version, but I've had a little problem, maybe due to my version of make, and I'll describe how I have fixed it.
You first need to download the source code from ftp://ftp.troll.no/freebies/leafnode/. You'll get leafnode-0.9.tar.gz.
Become root and do :
# cd /usr/local/src # tar -xzf ~/leafnode-0.9.tar.gz # cd leafnode-0.9/ # make
Everything must compile without any problem...
Make sure there is a "news" user and a "news" group on your system.
Then you can type:
# make install
If "make install" complains when making directories in /var/spool/news/message.id/, you may have the same problem as I've had. To fix it, I've modified the Makefile, to insert a part of the leafnode-0.8 Makefile:
replace the lines (in the "install:" section)
cd $(SPOOLDIR)/message.id for a in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ; do for b in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ; do \ mkdir ${a}${b}0 ${a}${b}1 ${a}${b}2 ${a}${b}3 ${a}${b}4 ; \ mkdir ${a}${b}5 ${a}${b}6 ${a}${b}7 ${a}${b}8 ${a}${b}9 ; done
by the line
-mkdir -p $(SPOOLDIR)/message.id/{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}
Be sure that the first character on the line is a tabulation. Then try again:
# make install
At this point, Leafnode will have installed the following files on your system:
/usr/local/sbin/fetch /usr/local/sbin/leafnode /usr/local/sbin/texpire /usr/local/man/fetch.8 /usr/local/man/leafnode.8 /usr/local/man/texpire.8 /usr/lib/leafnode/config.example /var/spool/news/ ... and a lot of subdirectories ...
First you have to copy the file /usr/lib/leafnode/config.example to /usr/lib/leafnode/config and edit him, to put the name of your remote NNTP server in place of:
server = news.hiof.no
Edit the file /etc/inetd.conf, and look for a line like:
nntp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.nntpd
then modify it like this:
nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/local/sbin/leafnode
Depending on your configuration, there may be no TCP wrapper installed, so you could have to remove the "/usr/sbin/tcpd" part of this line.
and do
# killall -HUP inetd
Connect to your Usenet provider, and, while being "root" or "news", run:
$ fetch
You will have to wait for a moment, because Leafnode is asking the NNTP server the list of all the active groups. Once fetch ends, run a newsreader, as normal user, and ask him to contact the localhost. for example, with tin do:
$ export NNTPSERVER=localhost $ tin -r
(With Netscape you have to put localhost in "Options/Mail and News/Servers/NNTP server")
You will get the list of all available newsgroups, then choose interesting ones, and read them. They will appear empty at this time. It's normal.
As root run again fetch. It will download all the content of the previously read newsgroups. The first downloading will take a while, but the next will obviously be very much quicker.
Your local USENET server is installed!
Now that leafnode run on your Linux box, you can configure some details:
In the file /usr/lib/leafnode/config, there are two fields you can edit:
Refer to the comments in this file to choose the values (on my system I use expire=10 and maxcount=3000)
You must run Texpire from time to time, and a daily entry in the crontab seems to be the best choice:
00 03 * * * news /usr/local/sbin/texpire
This line is for a system-wide crontab (generally /etc/crontab maintained by root), but you will have to remove the username "news" on user crontab (/var/spool/cron/news).
You will have to run periodically fetch. If you have a permanent link with your news server, there's an obvious solution: the crontab again, to run it once per hour for example.
00 * * * * news /usr/local/sbin/fetch
If you're using a non-permanent PPP connection, you can insert fetch at the end of the ip-up shell script (see Linux Gazette 7 "Setting up PPP's ip-up and ip-down scripts!").
Put the name "localhost
" in /etc/nntpserver or set the
environment variable (for example in /etc/profile):
export NNTPSERVER=localhost =
There are problems to avoid, especially if there are other users on your system, or if the leafnode server is on a local network. First you must make sure of the validity of the headers in the outgoing posts, but you also need to limit the list of the accessible newsgroups. Don't forget that Fetch will download the whole content of a newsgroup if someone tries to read it. So, be very careful with newsgroups like alt.binaries.pictures...
Fortunately, we can use some little awk and shell scripts to verify and correct the outgoing posts, and to limit the local access to selected newsgroups.
With some newsreaders, the "From:" field of the outgoing articles will be set to firstname.lastname@example.com and not email@example.com. With some of them you can configure the "From:" and "Reply-to:" fields, while the others need you to recompile them.
This problem can be worse if you have a Linux box with several users. Some of them can have misconfigured newsreader (sometimes on purpose...) and it may be safer to check the headers of the outgoing articles before posting them.
Here's a small awk filter which allows a kind of masquerading of the
"From:" line of an article. It will change the line
"From: email@example.com (user real name)"
to a line
"From: email@example.com (user real name)"
You may also ensure that username is correct (i.e. in a list of allowed users). The same Perl script will help us to determine the correct articles. Otherwise it will add a line "*** Wrong From field - This article must be deleted ***" to the message.
#! /usr/bin/gawk -f # # /usr/local/sbin/change_article_from_domain # # awk script to change the domain name on the "From:" # line of outgoing articles. # If the username is not valid a message will be added # at the bottom o the file, allowing a 'grep' to delete # him. BEGIN { # replace with the correct domains local_domain="my.station.on.my.lan" real_domain ="my.internet.provider.com" # insert here the name of your users allowed to post articles # (may be just one) valid_usernames["user1"] valid_usernames["user2"] must_be_deleted=0 } /^From:/ { gsub(local_domain, real_domain) username=substr($2,1,index ($2, "@") - 1) if (! (username in valid_usernames)) { must_be_deleted=1 # you can also add a system command # example : mail to newsmaster with # the username of the wrong article } } END { if (must_be_deleted != 0) { print "*** Wrong From field - This article must be deleted ***" } } { print }
This script can be useful if you have up to, say, ten users, otherwise you'll need to improve it in order to read the list of allowed users in an otherfile for example.
Now we will execute the above script on all the outgoing articles, sitting in /var/spool/news/out.going, then delete (or move to another directory) those with bad usernames.
#! /bin/bash # # /usr/local/sbin/modify_outgoing_articles cd /var/spool/news/out.going for i in * ; do /usr/local/sbin/change_article_from_domain < $i >/tmp/modified_articles/$i done rm -f * mv /tmp/modified_articles/* . rm -f `grep -l "*** Wrong From field - This article must be deleted ***" *`
(The backquote is used to catch the result of grep) Don't forget to create a /tmp/modified_articles/ directory. This script cannot prevent the fake "From:" lines, when an authorized user is hidden behind an other correct username. This can not be easily done, and if you really don't trust your users, you'll have to use another Usenet package like Inn or Cnews.
Now all the outgoing articles will have a correct "From:" line.
The second important point to check out is the list of fetched newsgroups.
If you haven't got a huge disk
space, it would be better to avoid downloading alt.binaries groups
or alt.2600. for example...
The problem is that fetch will download the content of each newsgroup
corresponding to a file in /var/spool/news/interesting.groups, for
example /var/spool/news/interesting.groups/comp.os.linux.announce
A file in this directory is touched by leafnode every time a user tries to read the content of the group. Are you sure that none of your users will try to have a look at alt.binaries.pictures.erotica...? So there are two possible solutions:
#! /bin/bash # # modify_interesting_groups cd /var/spool/news rm -f alt.* rm -f *windows* ... touch comp.os.linux.announce touch comp.windows.x.announce ...
you can also have a definite list of fetched newsgroups, for example in /var/spool/news/official.list, manually created:
# mkdir /var/spool/news/official.list # cd /var/spool/news/official.list # touch comp.os.linux.announce # touch comp.os.linux.answer # touch comp.lang.c.moderated ...
And this list will be copied in the interesting.groups directory by a script before each execution of fetch.
#! /bin/bash # # modify_interesting_groups cd /var/spool/news rm -f * copy /var/spool/news/official.list .
Now we have two scripts to insert before running fetch. For example in /etc/ppp/ip-up:
#! /bin/bash # # /etc/ppp/ip-up ... /usr/local/sbin/modify_interesting_groups /usr/local/sbin/modify_outgoing_articles fetch
I think that Leafnode is a very interesting package for those (most of us) who are running Linux on a standalone box with intermitent connection to a Usenet server, or on a small local network with few users. It's powerful and much simpler to install and to configure than Inn or Cnews, designed for bigger sites. Moreover it does not require any maintenance.
Christophe Blaess (firstname.lastname@example.com).


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